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Programming is a high value / very low social skill profession. (Bottom tier.) As such, it will continue to be exploited by apex social predators.


It's practically 2020 - the "nerds vs jocks" model of society is long dead. You're working with an outdated stereotype of programmers as social outcasts and loners that, even when it was relevant decades ago, was mostly reinforced by technical rather than social limitations. In modern reality, the web has been mainstream for decades, there are children's books about coding, and the apex social predator of the common developer is a developer with VC funding.




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